BAGHDAD, May 30: Two Palestinian diplomats have been released after being held for a year in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, a Palestinian official said here on Sunday.

US forces arrested the two men, Najah Abdel Rahman, Palestinian charge d'affaires, and Monir Subhi, the cultural attache, early last year and their release was witnessed by an AFP photographer on Saturday.

They were detained in mid-May 2003 with five other people working in the Palestinian mission, said National Palestine Committee vice president Anwar Al Sheikh. Iraqi-born Rahman told AFP that US forces had levelled no charges against them and repeatedly promised that they would be released.

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